AAUsat-II, COMPASS-1 and the Sun Sensor developed at DTU. (To AAU and Aachen teams: I stole the sat pic's of the internet without asking - please let me know if its' OK or not. -René)

Received Beacons

Pass 5. and 6. May 2008

Pass start 11:25 (9:25 UTC)

Not yet recorded

Pass 29. April 2008

Pass start 10:57 (08:57 UTC)

DTUsat GS records the first high quality beacons from AAUsat-II. These beacons are the first to be recorded with a quality good enough for full decoding.

The beacons below (click on AAUsat-II image) are excerpts of a whole package recorded during the pass.

By tweeking the receiver frequency engineers working at DTUsat GS yielded a much better quality signal. First step up was 5 kHz, second step up was 10 kHz with ever better signals. The transmitter oscillator must have drifted possible due to change in temperature.

Click on the images to hear the first high quality reception of AAUsat-II beacons.

Pass 28. April 2008

Pass start 13:48 (11:48 UTC).

Using a TLE provided by AAUsat-II Team.

Nothing but noise recorded.

Pass start 12:10:48 (10:10:48 UTC).

Nothing usefull recorded.

Pass start: 10:35:00 (08:35:00 UTC).

We believe we hear AAUsat-II

Click on the image to download a sound strip with what might be AAUsat-II beacon.